Comments on: Music Hackday Goodies: Robot-Driven Radio, Free Chordal Synth, Lyrics by Decade, More

By: iFAMILYHOUSE » Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday

iFAMILYHOUSE » Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:09:32 +0000

[...] were Web app-based and focused on consumption rather than creation of music, but we also saw a chordal synth plug-in and beer bottle percussion [...]

By: Create Digital Music » Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday

Create Digital Music » Wild Musical Inventions from Berlin Hackday — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:59:10 +0000

[...] were Web app-based and focused on consumption rather than creation of music, but we also saw a chordal synth plug-in and beer bottle percussion [...]

By: paulbailey.us (beta) » Bookmarks for July 6th through July 15th [del.icio.us]

paulbailey.us (beta) » Bookmarks for July 6th through July 15th [del.icio.us] — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:01:46 +0000

[...] Create Digital Music » The Music Bore “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t allow you to listen to Coldplay.” What would radio be like if playlists were not only robotic, but had robot DJs pulling information from the Interwebs dynamically? That’s the question asked by the winning team at London’s Music Hackday last weekend, which created an epic mashup of data sources to produce a voice-synthesized IRC chatbot that researches and plays music for you. [...]

By: Jonty

Jonty — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:36:15 +0000

Hah, thanks for the Theremag love – people keep mentioning it! We’ll try and record a video of it today.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:24:38 +0000

Good stuff. Also enjoying the Harmony Box, sounds lovely.

By: dead_red_eyes

dead_red_eyes — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:04:02 +0000

Harmony Box is wonderful. Thanks for the heads up Peter!!!!

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:37:26 +0000

@bennett: Well, absolutely. And the list goes on, TuneCore, drop.io, online stores dancetracks and othermusic, bunch of Web music companies, the NY Times R&D Lab. We’ve done of course a music hackday with New Work City and CDM in June, and around a narrower topic (tangible interfaces). We have the monthly CDM Handmade Music. We have regular “patching circles” around Pd/OpenFrameworks. We have NYC Resistor. And in addition to Columbia / NYU, don’t forget significant programs at SUNY, CUNY, Parsons, and NJ area schools.

In fact, I think it’s the fact that NYC’s tech scene is often more diffuse and varied is a reason it’s needed more badly here.

But I also think there was a missed opportunity with the London hackday to get efforts online. We learned a lot from that first experiment to make that happen in June, and definitely will be doing this on a regular basis with the CDM community.

By: bennett

bennett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:07:27 +0000

there is talk of setting up an nyc (er, well, east coast, but the two votes i’ve seen so far were for NYC over Boston) hackday on twitter- @echonest (near boston) and others (myself included) were coming up with a list of organizations / companies that may be interested, like amie street, indaba, hype machine, limewire… plus we’ve got NYU’s and Columbia’s music tech programs. bring it!

By: POLYGLOTT

POLYGLOTT — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:09:57 +0000

so cool, the music zeitgeist is such a good idea, a little peek into the collective unconscious. And you can never beat free VSTs! Thanks a lot! I look forward to more stuff like this!

@weCHING